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Case-based DXA Acquisition in Special Populations (available for CE credit; not available for CME credit)
Program Code:
030
Date:
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time:
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
EST
SPEAKER
:
Catherine Gordon,
MD, MSc, CCD, Director, Bone Health Program,
Boston's Children's Hospital
Catherine Gordon, MD, MSc directs the Bone Health Program at Children’s Hospital Boston and is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medicine School. Her primary research interest is the effect of nutrition and malnutrition on bone in children and adolescents. She has published widely in the areas of skeletal losses in young women with anorexia nervosa, cystic fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and vitamin D deficiency. Dr. Gordon has received independent funding through the NICHD and Dept. of Defense to carry out a clinical trial to investigate a new therapy to prevent bone loss in young women with anorexia nervosa, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2005 for this research.
Disclosures:
Consulting: Gilead Sciences, Inc
Other: Associate Director, Clinical Investigator Training Program (Harvard/MIT with Pfizer/Merck)
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Description
This didactic session will use clinical cases to illustrate the challenges in obtaining bone mass measurements. Topics addressed will include acquisition in children, patients with physical, developmental or cognitive conditions precluding standard positioning. Recommendations on alternate imaging or positioning techniques will be discussed.